HAMMER AND WRENCH USED IN ATTACK ON FAMILY

Man arrested after alleged assault on mom and brother, 10

Temecula police officers used a pepper ball device and a police dog to arrest a Temecula man who allegedly used a hammer and wrench to assault his mother and 10-year-old brother.

The suspected attacker, who was reportedly under the influence of a controlled substance at the time, was identified as 29-year-old Aaron Graves, according to a news release written by Temecula police Sgt. Curt Harris.

Graves was booked into Southwest Detention Center in French Valley, and later taken to the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, on suspicion of assault, resisting arrest, willful harm to a child, removal of a telephone line and obstruction, jail records state. His bail was set at $35,000.

Police received a 911 call from the 10-year-old brother around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Arriving at a home on Tecumseh Court, a neighborhood north of the Pechanga Resort & Casino in southern Temecula, officers found the man barricaded in the house threatening to assault anyone who approached, Harris stated in the news release.

Officers entered the house through the rear door, but the man refused requests to drop his weapons, Harris wrote.

Multiple officers then tried to subdue him with electronic stun devices, but those were ineffective. The officers then used a pepper ball device, a sort of paint ball gun that fires pepper spray rounds. That momentarily disabled the man, but he ended up re-engaging the officers, Harris wrote.

At that point, the officers called in a police dog. As the man tangled with the dog, trying to strike it with a hammer, officers rushed him and placed him in handcuffs.

Two officers suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, the release states. The mother and the 10-year-old were treated by paramedics at the scene.